News - Couverture souple

Lehni, Jürg; Rich, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3905714949 ISBN 13 : 9783905714944

Editeur : Nieves, 2011

Synopsis

The Speed-i-Jet, a mobile pen-printer manufactured by Reiner (Germany), is a device built around an industrial inkjet cartridge / printing head. With its clumsy user interface and 30 character maximum capacity, this charming parasitical product prompted the discussion of possible uses for such a device. Together with the curatorial staff of the institution, daily news headlines were selected and transferred onto the devices. Holding and moving the device like a pen, visitors could experience the writing of texts to which the author is ambiguous. The headlines were collected during Things to Say at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 2009.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jürg Lehni (born 1978 in Lucerne, lives and works in London) is an independent designer, developer and artist. His self-initiated work originates from reflections about tools, the computer and the way we work with and adapt to technology. Over the past years he worked on a family of projects that are all linked through these topics. Most of these projects were collaborations with people from other backgrounds (Graphic designers, artists, typgoraphers and engineers). Alex Rich (born 1977 in Caerphilly, lives and works in London) approaches design from a multi-disciplinary perspective. As a member of the jury that judged Jürg Lehni's ECAL degree show in 2002, and seeing one of Lehni's drawing machines at work, Rich - a deft observer of accidental meaning - opened a discussion with the designer about the machine's historical and cultural context. Alex Rich viewed the work as, "the translation of imagery from mind to machine to wall," and suggested assembling, for an exhibition, compilations with similar writing and drawing machines.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nieves
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3905714949
• ISBN 13: 9783905714944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 24
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible